Suppose the omnipotent, omniscient, and supremely malevolent intelligence of Stephen Law’s “evil god challenge” really existed. What would the world look like? Like the actual world? A much more plausible answer is provided by Harlan Ellison’s classic short story “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream,” one of the most chilling pieces of fiction you’ll ever read. Law’s challenge is irrelevant to classical theism, but perhaps the theistic personalist could made hay out of Ellison’s scenario.
Thứ Sáu, 22 tháng 10, 2010
Suppose the omnipotent, omniscient, and supremely malevolent intelligence of Stephen Law’s “evil god challenge” really existed. What would the world look like? Like the actual world? A much more plausible answer is provided by Harlan Ellison’s classic short story “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream,” one of the most chilling pieces of fiction you’ll ever read. Law’s challenge is irrelevant to classical theism, but perhaps the theistic personalist could made hay out of Ellison’s scenario.
Đăng ký:
Đăng Nhận xét (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
A reader asks: [I] was curious, given your work in philosophy of mind, what you would say is the most plausible notion we have of God's...
-
A year ago today I put up a post with the title “So you think you understand the cosmological argument?” It generated quite a bit of discu...
-
The principle of sufficient reason (PSR), in a typical Neo-Scholastic formulation, states that “there is a sufficient reason or adequate ne...
-
While we’re on the subject of Steve Martin , consider the following passage from his memoir Born Standing Up . Martin recounts the insight...
-
I commend to you the late historian of philosophy Paul Hoffman’s paper “Does Efficient Causation Presuppose Final Causation? Aquinas vs. ...
-
In the sixth of his Meditations on First Philosophy , Descartes writes: [T]here is a vast difference between mind and body, in respect tha...
-
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but while we’re on the subject of humor , here’s another mistake that is often made in discussions...
-
On the subject of time and our awareness of it, Augustine says the following in The Confessions : But how does this future, which does no...
-
Today Jonah Goldberg took Kathleen Parker and others to task here for some of the silly and ill-informed things they have been saying in de...
-
Suppose you go out on a blind date and a friend asks you how it went. You pause and then answer flatly, with a slight smirk: “Well, I like...
Blogger news
Blogger templates
Blog Archive
-
▼
2010
(154)
-
▼
tháng 10
(10)
- The catastrophic spider
- God, obligation, and the Euthyphro dilemma
- Fame is fleeting, babe!
- Harlan Ellison’s evil god
- Law’s “evil-god challenge”
- Classical theism, atheism, and the Godfather trilogy
- Reno and Beckwith on Aquinas
- Very informal fallacies
- God, man, and classical theism
- Philippa Foot (1920 – 2010)
-
▼
tháng 10
(10)
Blogroll
About
Copyright ©
Edward Feser | Powered by Blogger
Design by Azmind.com | Blogger Template by NewBloggerThemes.com
0 nhận xét:
Đăng nhận xét